So I’m making a TicTacToe “AI” and the code itself doesn’t have any deep learning implications such as Tensor flow in min-max algorithms. The code simply consists of a jumble of if/else statements. My question is: can my code be considered an Artificial Intelligence because I’m literally training the code to play tic tac toe in a certain way when a player selects an area of play?
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This is really a question about word definition more than programming, but per artificial-intelligence:
So I guess in the context on Stack Overflow: yes, a tic-tac-toe decision tree is an AI.
This IEEE publication has the following to say on the subject:
Tic-Tac-Toe is a very simple game, so it is very easy to make a simple application behave exactly the same as an intelligent human would. So, if this is the definition of artificial intelligence to which you subscribe, then yes, you would be justified in calling your “jumble of if/else statements” an AI.
However, if you tell someone you wrote a Tic-Tac-Toe AI, they will immediately know that it is either (a) too complicated for what you’re applying it to, or (b) not really very intelligent at all, but functional for its task.
The problem arises when people use “artificial intelligence” as a buzzword (buzzphrase?) that obscures how the AI is making decisions, which could potentially be because it’s an ML black-box and they can’t tell you exactly how it works either, or because they want to sell a product that sounds fancy but is actually just a jumble of if/else statements (or simply would not benefit from explaining it in detail in place of just saying “it’s AI”).
In this case I feel like it is a safe, if somewhat useless, application of the term.
Some agents are simple, and some agents are complex. A simple if/else statement is a very simple intelligent agent.
AI is not new. John McCarthy coined the term in 1955 and organized the first Artificial Intelligence conference in 1956.
In the last few decades, we have cracked building scalable intelligent agents that solve hard problems very fast; thanks to the technological improvement, faster & cheaper hardware & years of research by great people.
So a simple if/else is an intelligent agent considered as AI by the pioneers of AI whose tremendous work & years of research been open sourced resulted in building complex intelligent agents faster and simpler.
The definition of an intelligent agent coined by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig in the book Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach. In the introduction of the book, the authors cited this example of simple if/else and confirmed that it’s a simple, intelligent agent.
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